Poll: Do you use slide film?

Poll: Do you use slide film?

  • Never

    Votes: 135 19.0%

  • Occasionally

    Votes: 261 36.7%

  • Frequently

    Votes: 254 35.7%

  • Other: e.g. I shoot slides but in my SLR instead

    Votes: 61 8.6%
  • Total voters
    711
I will shoot Kodachrome 64 as long as it is available. I make sure I always have plenty of it in my freezer. Found out that I have only 5 rolls left, so yesterday I ordered 30 rolls for 350 euro (approx. $470) which is not a lot of money considering processing is included in the price.
 
I can't be bothered to scroll through seven pages of posts to see if I've replied to this thread before or not, but on the chance that I haven't, the only film I shoot is colour slide, virtually all 100 ISO, except for the odd roll of 400 pushed one stop for low light.
My film of choice is Fuji Sensia II spooled in 36-shot loads and sold under the house-brand name Memories, for a chain of stores here in Canada called Black's, which is owned (but soon to be sold off) by Fuji.
 
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Slide film

Slide film

I alternate depending on the weather. Right now I got B/W in my M6 and 100SW in my Minox EL. It's cloudy so no use shooting color slides outdoors in my daily routs.
 
Kodachrome

Kodachrome

I used to use Kodachrome 25 and now I use Kodachrome 64.
Kodachromes are probably the best films ever made.
Kodak just did a lousy job promoting it,
as seems to be the case with most things they do, I am sad to say.
On occasion I use, E100G, Provia100, Velvia100.
Zoran
 
rbsinto said:
I can't be bothered to scroll through seven pages of posts to see if I've replied to this thread before or not, but on the chance that I haven't, the only film I shoot is colour slide, virtually all 100 ISO, except for the odd roll of 400 pushed one stop for low light.
My film of choice is Fuji Sensia II spooled in 36-shot loads and sold under the house-brand name Memories, for a chain of stores here in Canada called Black's, which is owned (but soon to be sold off) by Fuji.
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Is the Blacks Memories package any cheaper than buying Sensia II at a place like Downtown Camera? Downtown is pretty reasonable on processing if you purchase it at the same time as the film.

Gene
 
I have a roll of E6 to C41 *Crossprocessed* in my 1946 "Half Race" Leica IIIC now....going to shoot indoors/outdoors PinUp stuff with three or four different lenses on Tues :)

Tom
 
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I bought my rangefinder, planning to use it mainly for B&W, and to continue using my D70s for color. After I shot a few rolls of B&W, and saw how sharp and detail rich the negatives where, I had to try some slide film. It's harder to use, but when it works, it works great! I just shot 9 rolls in Colorado...Provia 100F, Velvia 100f, and Astia. It kills the D70s.

Paul
 
I Have only discovered the quality of slide film quite recently, I have used it only in Medium Format, mainly pinhole. The quality compared to negative film is exceptional, however I have trouble getting decent quality prints, as alas I cant do this myself, so have to rely on the local processor.
I did get some pinhole slide images cross processed, they were quite whacky.

Is there anywhere in the UK you can get quality prints from slides for a reasonable price?
I have only used Fuji slide film, as its really the only one I can find readily, usually Velvia 50iso.

Is the difference between Slide & colour neg film that noticable with a 35mm RF?
 
"It Kills the D70s"
Have you tried the D80? This is THE best digital DSR, full stop.
The quality of colour images from the D80 is also exceptional...I love the metering!
 
Still desperately trying to load my R-D1 with divine Kodachrome 25. Have to re-read the manual ...

Before going digital I used Kodachrome 64 95% of the time. KC 25 made up most of the rest. A very small amount was used when I got out of KC being somewhere abroad.
 
occasionally i shoot kodachrome 64; some of my favourite colour shots have been in k64. unfortunately it is very expensive and the price no longer includes the processing.....and the processing time is looooooong. oh, and another thing about slide film i agree with is that it is persnickety. accordingly i have to nail the aperature/shutter-speed or the colours go 'muddy' on me.
 
As my rangefinder has only full stops (both in speeds and aperture terms) I don't use slides. Besides that, I use it without batteries, so no meter, too.
 
I used to shoot Kodachrome 25, 64 and 200. Love the way it looks, it reminds me of Technicolor. But processing has become a hassle and it's really expensive.
 
Hey Alec -

When I was shooting K64 in Los Angeles I would drop it off at A&I (a pro lab) and had it back a few days later. Perfectly processed and relatively cheap. But then A&I shut down their Kodachrome processor and suddenly everything had to be shipped to Switzerland or some place in the midwest of the US (Kansas?) for processing. Turnaround time become 4-6 weeks.

That was a few years ago and in the meanwhile I've moved over to b/w for 99.9% of what I do.

Recently I moved to the UK and from what you are describing things seem to run a little smoother over here. I may just have to shoot a roll for the heck of it.

HL
 
As I started out many years ago I believed that only amateur snap shooters used negative film. By the late 80s I was shocked to learn that many newspapers here would prefer negs over slides (due to the increased tolerance, I guess).

Then; a couple of years ago, after picking up a RF camera again and after I started coming here, I started testing different C-41 films. And never looked back, really. My respect for the color rendition in Kodak´s Portra film is huge!

leif e
 
I say there is nothing more satisfying than viewing a well exposed and color corrected slide with a top quality loupe. Anything else is a compromise ( black and white excepted). May slide film live forever.
 
Hi!

I mostly do B/W when I do film (I'll NEVER do b/w on digital), but when I'm doing color, it's ALWAYS a slide film. I think the colors are much better in slides then in negatives.


Yaad.
 
There is no doubt that slide film renders much nicer colors. There is also no doubt that its damnably hard to expose correctly and in contrasty situations, forget it. I started with slide film but either let my standards slip or accepted the reality of everyday shooting (depending on how you look at it) and now shoot negative film pretty well exclusively.
 
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